TPE Theory: Diving into the Mailbag with Andrew Brokos (Part 1)
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TPE Theory: Diving into the Mailbag with Andrew Brokos (Part 1)
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TightlyWound
Andrew, just thought I would follow up with you since you chose this question for you first video. I took your comments to heart back when I originally posted the hand. I also shared your comments with my two primary friends that I discuss poker strategy with and they both agreed completely with your analysis. I can happily report that since that hand was originally posted my preflop sizing has changed dramatically. I am not much more varied with my sizing and the hands I choose to do so with. Pot size and the odds I want to give my opponents is what drives the majority of my decisions these days. Of course that always should have been the case, but I was disciple of small ball poker for so long that I needed some honest feedback and analysis to show me the error of my ways. Thanks for the coaching…it has helped me improve my game.
TightlyWound
Now instead of not
Foucault
Thanks, glad to hear it!
3for3
Do we always need to stack off with 80BB and AA here? I’d agree, it would be a much easier call if we had raised to 6x-8x preflop, the pot would have gotten big enough on the turn that folding would be so easily exploitable. That being said, I find in real life, Villains make their bluffs and semi bluffs on the flop, raises on the turn are a ”they always have it’ spot for me.
Foucault
No, you certainly don’t need to. My point is only that it would be exploitable not to. As long as you are confident in the thing you are exploiting (that your opponent is very unlikely to have worse than AA here) then folding is best.
Maniackid11
Which means if you are not confident, then calling is best based on the math. Your hand (in a perfect world) should have roughly 77% equity against a button preflop calling range. I am currently 3:07 into this video and that’s what I have concluded so far. I am wondering, was the turn card the 4th of the rainbow or did the board catch a flush draw? Either way, based on math alone, you have well over the right price to call.
Maniackid11
you’re only really losing to like maybe 8 combos, assuming he doesn’t flat with offsuit J9 and doesn’t 3-bet with JJ. I think I would call here? I am going to finish watching the video though because I know Brokos said in the beginning it’s not really about this, it’s about the fundamentals.
Maniackid11
and of course if I kept my virtual mouth shut I would realize we are now discussing the mistakes aspect. So Brokos, you’re saying we raise preflop (they should be consistent size-wise) for a fundamental purpose to cause our opponents to make mistakes (folding wrong hands/calling wrong hands:not raising right hands/raising wrong hands)? Watch, I ask this question now and it will answer itself as I continue the video…perhaps I should just do that….
Maniackid11
Ok, I misread this. I’m now assuming we consider the BTN loose-passive. God, I’m going to take my time with reading everything more carefully in the future. Sorry guys. Awesome video, Brokos.